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  • From: Frediano Ziglio <freddyz77 AT tin.it>
  • To: FreeTDS Development Group <freetds AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [freetds] windows installer copyright
  • Date: Sun, 09 May 2004 08:17:11 +0200

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> > 3) The "configure" script is run on a Unix box. Among other things,
> > this produces a Makefile and a tweaked version of the setup.rc file.
>
> The configure script doesn't affect setup.rc. Autoconf will read
> configure.in, wherein it will be instructed to produce a file 'setup.rc'.
> The default input for foo.bar is foo.bar.in; in this case, autoconf will
> want a file 'setup.rc.in'. IOW, setup.rc -- along with the configure
> script and some others -- are all outputs of autoconf.
>

I would suggest to split setup.rc (just use an include) so to edit with
a resource editor.

> One question: Do the ProductVersion and FileVersion have to be four
> integers? Can they be strings? Can they be something like
> '0.63.dev.20040430'? I assume No, and am preparing for 0, 63, 0,
> 20040430. If the last number must be <32K, then I'll trim the day.
>

They are 4 16-bit values. major.minor.subversion.build_number
We can't use day cause it's too long for a 16-bit.. perhaps
0.62.9999.days_from_start. 0.62.9999 for 0.63 develping, I don't know an
easy and portable way to do a diff of days...

> > 4) Still on the Unix box, "make dist" is run to create a gzipped tar
> > archive containing the source files, INCLUDING THE TWEAKED setup.rc!
>
> Yes. 'make dist' bundles things up. In the case of setup.rc, it *only*
> bundles it up. In the case of, say, the User Guide, it produces the HTML
> from the SGML.
>
> > 5) Somebody downloads source to a Windows PC, extracts the source, and
> > compiles it with MSVC6 without running "configure".
>
> Exactly.
>

freddy77






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